[R] R on mac not installing packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 22/02/2013 21:26, David Winsemius wrote:
> The system is reporting that it cannot find `make`. It appears that you have not installed XCode on you Mac, or that you did with an earlier version for which you have not updated, or something else which has broken your installation. Please read the MacOS FAQ. (And post further such question on the SIG-Mac mailing list.)

For the record, such information is in the 'R Installation and 
Administration Manual', as from R-patched (and hence R 2.15.3 and R 
3.0.0).  See e.g. 
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Mac-OS-X .

On recent versions of OS X it is not Xcode you need, but the 'Xcode 
command-line tools'.  These can be installed from inside Xcode 
(Preferences->Downloads->Components) or separately.

For Hmisc you will need a matching Fortran compiler: see that manual.

> On Feb 22, 2013, at 12:15 PM, londonphd wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi, I have not been able to use R in my macbook pro. I am getting the
>> following error message every time i try to install a package
>>
>> * installing *source* package ‘Hmisc’ ...
>> ** package ‘Hmisc’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> ** libs
>> *** arch - i386
>> sh: make: command not found
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘Hmisc’
>> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/Hmisc’
>> * installing *source* package ‘quadprog’ ...
>> ** libs
>> *** arch - i386
>> sh: make: command not found
>> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘quadprog’
>> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/quadprog’
>> ERROR: dependency ‘Hmisc’ is not available for package ‘its’
>> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/its’
>> ERROR: dependency ‘quadprog’ is not available for package ‘tseries’
>> * removing ‘/Users/ravshonbek/Library/R/2.15/library/tseries’
>>
>> The downloaded source packages are in
>>
>> ‘/private/var/folders/c7/jrjv78_x6f53l3sw_w715gk00000gn/T/RtmpS4sYUx/downloaded_packages’
>>
>>
>> I look forward to your help, plsease
>>
>>
>>
>>
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